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A WALNUT CIRCULAR COFFEE TABLE ON CABRIOLE LEGS; AN OAK PERIODICAL RACK AND A CREAM PAINTED TURNED WOODEN STANDARD LAMP

TEAK PERIODICAL RACK AND A BLACK METAL UPLIGHTER STANDARD LAMP

London Brighton & South Coast Railway Periodical Free Passes 1884 framed and glazed notice 21in x16.5in in colour with actual passes mounted for identification purposes of , First and Second class Annual for All Stations, Main Lines and Suburban Lines, First, Second and Third class for Periods less than a year, and Workmen's. Each a different design and style. Issued December 31st 1883 London Bridge Terminus. A superb item.

FROHNE H. W. & JACKSON A. F. & B. Color Schemes for the Home & Model Interiors. Col. & other plates. Quarto. Orig. cloth, some soiling. 1919; also Colour, a bound vol. of this periodical for 1914/1915 & one other vol. (3).

BARNARDO T. J. Our Darlings, The Children's Treasury. Bound vol. of this periodical. Mounted col. plates. Quarto. Orig. cloth, soiled. 1882-1883; also 6 other vols. (7).

Volume's1 - 9 of The War Illustrated, a periodical on the Great War, together with Ships of the Royal Navy detailing ship distribution and units in 1935 and presented to an Ordinary Signalman for being the most efficient in his class in May 1936, (Qty)

FASCISM - The Tribune: the Organ of Fascist Opinion, vol. 1 no. 1, (Dec. 1926) - no. 11, (Dec. 1927); originally edited & published by A.M. Coles, Battersea - but later associated with the A.C.E. (Associated Citizens of the Empire); orig. printed wrappers, contents on upper & from no. 5 advert on lower * contents include 'Reality of the English Coal Strike' (by Arnoldo Mussolini) & the monthly regular feature 'Before the Tribune'; a very scarce periodical in uncertain times. Illustrated

AN EMBOSSED BRASS CLAD PERIODICAL RACK, AN EMBOSSED BRASS CYLINDRICAL COAL RECEIVER AND A BRASS HORSESHOE PATTERN HEARTH STAND (3)

JAMES CROMAR WATT (1862-1940) RARE GOLD AND TURQUOISE BROOCH, CIRCA 1905 with finely enamelled bands of iridescent green, with silver foiled backing, enclosing gold wirework scroll borders, the centre with large turquoise matrix and further turquoise bead drop 3cm wide Note. James Cromar Watt was born in Aberdeen. He worked in precious metals, developed particular skills in the ancient techniques of gold granulation and translucent foiled enamelling. His work was exhibited in Turin in 1902 and was illustrated in the Art Journal periodical of the time. Some of his pieces were strongly influenced by the enamel work of Phoebe Traquair and some of it was designed in association with the painter and stained glass artist, Douglas Strachan. His work was predominantly in the collection of the Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum. A gold and enamel necklace by Cromar Watt was sold by Lyon & Turnbull, 6 April 2016, lot 237.

Gentleman's Magazine - Sylvanus Urban London: Edw. Cave [and later others], 1731-1844. First series: volumes 1-103 (up to 1834) volume 1 in second edition; New Series: volumes 1-22 (1834-1844); Index volumes: volume 1 covering volumes 1-20 (in stone grey quarter calf), index volumes 1& 2 covering volumes 1-56 and index volume 4 covering volumes 57-88 (in uniform in camel cloth); Bindings: volumes 1-25 in modern stone grey quarter calf gilt with red morocco gilt labels, volumes 26 - New Series volume 18 in modern camel cloth with red morocco gilt labels to spines, New Series volumes 19-22 in contemporary half calf; occasional sections lacking, such as October 1834 and November 1844; The Gentleman's Magazine Library comprising: Manners and Customs, 1883, Popular Superstitions, 1884, Archaeology parts 1 & 2, 1886, Roman-British Remains parts 1 & 2, 1887, Literary Curiosities and Notes, 1888, Architectural Antiquities parts 1 & 2, English Topography parts 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12 only, 1892-1900, all in uniform cream cloth with some soiling and covers and spines detached from text blocks; Ecclesiology, 1894, 4to, brown quarter cloth; English Traditions and Foreign Customs, 1885, Biographical Notes, 1889, English Topography...of Nottinghamshire..., 1897, English Topography...of Warwickshire..., 1901, The Topography of London, 1904-1905, 3 volumes, all in uniform brown cloth; (quantity, sold as a periodical not subject to return) Provenance: From the collection of Major Paul Payne, Archivist to the Royal Shakespeare Company 1960-1974 Note: A carefully compiled and near-complete set of 'The Gentleman's Magazine' to 1844. An accompanying document entitled 'Explanation of the Index' gives a detailed plate count up to volume 25, whilst Todd's 1965 bibliography of the magazine (also included), has been studied and annotated in accordance with the collection. The majority of volumes have been bound in tan buckram with red morocco labels by Bayntun of Bath. The collection was started by Ralph Milbank Hudson II of the Friarage, Yarm, in County Durham, MP for Sunderland from 1918-1922. It was passed by descent to Major Paul Payne as a belated wedding present, due to his love of books. Major Payne and his wife sourced many of the missing elements from the set, and arranged for the books to be re-bound. In 1966 Major and Mrs Payne received a visit from a bibliographer of the Gentleman's Magazine who was looking to publish a replica of the work. He had been advised that this collection had one of the most complete sets of plates and illustrations to be found.

Mackenzie, Henry The Lounger. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh In the Years 1785 and 1786. Edinburgh: William Creech, [1785-87]. Folio, complete set of 101 numbers, first editions, with a duplicate of No. II in second edition bound in, and of No. XCVII loosely inserted (the latter frayed in inner and outer margins, pagination at head cropped), the usual fold marks, some of which a little discoloured, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips to corners, red lettering piece on spine, sides slightly rubbed, repairs to lower joint and foot of spine, [ESTC P1411], bookplate of James Elphinstone Erskine & Charles R. Cowie

A CHILD'S HARDWOOD HOOP BACK HIGH CHAIR WITH ARMS AND A PERIODICAL RACK

A Set of Four Beatles 'For President' Pin Badges, each depicting a Beatle profile; together with a Rolling Stones No. 28 periodical, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas 'Dancing In The Street', Tamla STML 11099 LP and 'Reggae Chartbusters', Trojan, stereo TBLS 105 LP:- One Tray

Box: Co. Kerry Periodical: Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, No. 1 - No. 22, complete together in 21 issues, Naas 1968 - 1989, illus. etc., orig. ptd. wrappers; also some other books of Co. Kerry interest, together with some issues of Irish Rugby, as a box lot, good. (1)

Periodical: Yeats (W.B.) & others To-Morrow, Vol. I NO. 1 & No. 2 Complete, lg. folio D. 1924, orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good. (2)Contributors: Yeats, Lennox Robinson, Jos. Campbell etc.

Periodical: The Dome A Quarterly containing Examples of All the Arts, Nos. 1 - V, First Series. 4to L. (at The Unicorn Press) 1897 - 1898. Profusely illustrated, coloured & bl. & white plts., uncut, orig. buckram; also The Dome, An Illustrated Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Art, Vols. 1 - V11, together 7 vols. 4to L. (The Sign of The Unicorn) October 1898 - July 1900. Profusely illustrated, cold. plts., etc., uncut, in uniform gilt lettered cloth. as a periodical, w.a.f. V. good set. (8)

Periodical: Brindley (T.W.)ed. The Racing Calendar, Vol. 108 - Vol. 134, together approx. 25 vols., sm. 8vo D. 1897 - 1923, (lacking a couple), some pps. loose orig. tan mor. as a periodical, w.a.f. (25)

Important Literary Periodical[Poetry], Jordan (John)ed. Poetry Ireland, 8vo, 8 nos (7 issues) no's 1 - 8 [all published], illus., ptd. wrappers. Clean set. (7)

From the Library of 'An Seabhac'Co. Kerry: Donovan (T.M.) A Popular History of East Kerry, D. 1931. First Edn., illus., cloth, d.w.; Periodical - Kerry Archaeological Magazine, Nos 1 - 12, together 11 nos. (lacking No. 5) Tralee 1908 - 1914, illus. etc. recent cloth; Ryle (M.P.) The Kingdom of Kerry, D. 1899. First, illus., orig. cloth; & 1 other of Kerry interest. (5)

Periodical: Republican Review, [The Irish Separatist Monthly]. Vol. I No. 1 - Vol. I No. 10, together 10 nos, 4to Dublin Sept. 1938 - June 1939, orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Periodical: Co. Carlow, Carloviana: Journal of the Old Carlow Society, 9 issues, 1970 - 1979 (including Jubilee Journal 1971), illus. & advert, ptd. wrappers, as a periodical. (1)

Periodical: Murphy (Patricia) Nonplus, Nos 1 - 4, [All Published], together 4 Nos. 8vo Oct. 1959 - Winter 1960. Illus. etc., orig. pict. boards. Good. (4)* Complete file with early work by Flann O'Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, etc.

Periodical: Co. Meath - Rioht na Midhe, Vol. I No. 1- Vol. 24, together 40 nos. (incomplete approx. 11 nos lacking) Drogheda 1955 - 2013, illus. etc. orig. pict. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. (40)

Art Periodical: de Breffney (B.) & Mulcahy (J.) & others Irish Arts review, Vol. 1 - 33 (no. 2) profusely illus., some bound & ptd. wrappers, a good clean set, unusual to get so complete, as a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Periodical: O'Duilearga (Seamus)ed. Bealoideas, The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society. Vol. 2 No. 1 - Vol. 47, 46 vols. in 52 nos. unbroken. 8vo 1929 - 1979, some illus., all orig. wrappers. V. good. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

'The Yellow Book - An Illustrated Quarterly', complete in 13 volumes (1894-97). Published in London by Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 8vo cloth bindings, illustrated by various artists including Aubrey Beardsley. A leading journal of the British 1890s, which contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres: poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits and reproductions of paintings. Beardsley was its first art editor and has been credited with the idea of the yellow cover, with its association with illicit French fiction of the period. The periodical lent its name to the "Yellow Nineties", referring to the decade of its operation.

Wilberforce (William, philanthropist, a leader of the anti-slavery movement, 1759-1833) Letter signed to Adam Hodgson in Liverpool, most written in the hand of an amanuensis, with a few lines in Wilberforce's autograph, 2pp. with conjugate blank and address panel, Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, 2nd May 1827, excusing himself by stating that "the complaint in my eyes which almost entirely prevents my reading, keeps me ignorant of all periodical literature, especially of all Ephemeral Publications", and taking up the pen himself Wilberforce assures Hodgson that "we shall be happy to see you (en famille) at Highwood Hill...", strip of album leaf on address panel; and 6 other letters, including one from Hodgson sending the above letter as a souvenir, and others including: John Payne Collier, Cowden Clarke, Basil Hall etc., folds (7).

Irish Independence.- [Sampson (William) & Thomas Russell] Review of the Lion of Old England; or the Democracy Confounded; As it Appeared from Time to Time in a Periodical Print. With Additions and Amendments by the Reviewers, woodcut frontispiece, frontispiece small tear repaired, browned, slightly foxed, remains of lower wrapper at end, new endpapers, modern half calf, [ESTC locates 5 copies of this edition in the British Isles & 2 in the United States; not in BL], 12mo, Belfast, 1794. ⁂ A United Irish satire on George III.

American constitution.- The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. LVII, For the Year MDCCLXXXVII, 2 vol., engraved plates, some folding, some spotting or staining, contemporary half calf, vol.1 upper joint splitting, both vol. spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, 1787. sold as a periodical and not subject to return. ⁂ Contains one of the earliest complete printings in England of the American Constitution, that was signed in Philadelphia in the September of 1787. It is found in the July and December issues (pp.1008-1011 and 1110-1112).

1- ERASMUS, D: Twenty select colloquies. 1680. Cont. full leather; Covers detached and lacking spine; 2- Holy Bible; Carlisle, J Harrison, 1778, folio; frontis and first few pages detached; lacking upper cover; 3- Holy Bible. Cambridge,1844. Fine binding by Barritt & co. with gauffered edges; 4- Simon Olive-Branch: The Looker-On, a periodical. 4 vols. 1797, full leather ; rubbed and chipped; 5- Close, F: Miscellaneous Sermons. Vol. 1 only. 1833. (8)

1- Museum Rusticum Et Commerciale: Or, Select Papers on Agriculture, Commerce, Arts, and Manufactures; 6 volumes. For R. Davis, 1765-66. A periodical for the period: Sept. 1763-Jan. 1766; with plates, plans, tables & illustrations in the text: V1- PP:480, +index+4 Plates & 1 table; V2- PP:382, +index+ 2 folding plans, 1 Plate & 4 tables; V3- PP:388, +index+2 Plates; V4- PP:470, +index+2 Plates; V5- PP:395, +index+ folding Plate; V6- PP:453, +index+ folding Plate. Cont. leather backed marbled boards(one volume with different marbled boards); covers worn and dust soiled; hinges cracked; v.4 with front blank endpaper torn with loss; one page torn without loss; many pages unopened; 2- Agricultural Magazine; volume xi, 1804. No general title; PP: 5-384; Plus 4 plates. Covers worn and dust soiled. (7)

Cigarette/Gum/Trade Cards : Macleans - National Periodical 1966 set of cards - card game and instructions.

Benjamin Disraeli - 1st Earl of Beaconsfield and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1804-1881), a hand written and signed letter, 'Sat. My Dear Sir. I have been during the last ten days in ??? correspondence with Sir L. I have this morning received a most favourable letter from him. He is now in personal correspondence with me. One of his colleagues will communicate to me "the result when properly matured". ??? your acquaintance with foreign diplomats, could you obtain me any information respecting the state papers appearing in a periodical work called The Portfolio? Is this genuine? If from ?? give me my ???? on this ???. Your greatly obliged & ???. Always, my ????, sincerely yours. B Disraeli', on folded paper with gilt edge. 19.5cm high; with a letter from Winston Churchill with printed signature dated 30th November 1964 and two postcards of Churchill (4)

Medals - World War Two, 1939-1945 star, Africa star, War medal, 1939-1945 medal (5); ribbons (2); North Africa clasp; 8th Army periodical; RAF cap badge; etc.

'With the Flag to Pretoria' (1900 periodical), to/w other similar publications

The Steamship, Vol. XII 1900-1901,bound periodical, cloth gilt Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

'Engineering' bound periodical, 1867-1869, 1873, 1882, The Mechanical World' 1897-98, all half calf (7). Provenance: Joost Slingerland Collection Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Le Perroquet, Journal Politique Charivarique IllustrÚ ColoriÚ, 2 volumes, 1876-77 & 1878-79, containing 8 issues of Il Papagallo between 1876 and 1877, and 120 issues of Le Perroquet from 6th August 1876 to 30 September 1879 (renamed The Parrot from 18 May 1879 onwards), each issue consisting of 4 pages, with a double-page colour lithograph by Augusto Grossi, all bound in two contemporary cloth bindings, blindstamped decoration to each cover, titled and dated in gilt to centre of each upper cover, slightly rubbed and frayed, and some inner hinges broken, folio (40 x 31.5 cm, 15.75 x 12.5 ins) Rare bound volumes of the satirical magazine Il Papagallo and its Parisian version Le Perroquet, founded in 1873, containing large-scale serio-comic caricatures in vivid colour by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919). Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. A list of the issues contained in these two volumes, including numbers and dates, is available from the auction office. (2)

Thomson (Charles Wyville & Murray, John). Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson, 40 volumes bound in 50, 1st edition, London, Edinburgh, etc.: HMSO for Longman & Co. [and others], 1880-95, over 3,280 plates, charts and maps, mostly lithographed, many tinted and many hand-coloured, some double-page and folding, some plates and leaves detached, some spotting and occasional damp-staining mostly at front and rear of each volume, heavier water-staining to Zoology Volumes 12 (plate margins), 14 (particularly plates at rear and final plate adhered to plate guard) and 24 Text Volume (damp rot at rear affecting margins and final leaf), small circular ink stamp 'Presented by Her Majesty's Government' to half-title or title-page of all volumes, bookplate of Cardiff Free Library to front pastedowns of all volumes, all but three last published volumes with engraved presentation inscription in the bookplate: 'From the Library of W. Kitchen Parker, FRS, Purchased by Herbert M. Thompson, Esquire and Presented to the Cardiff Free Library, June 1891', most inner hinges cracked or near broken, original publisher's green cloth gilt, many with remains of printed paper labels at foot of spines, rubbed and a few volumes damp-marked (cloth to lower board of Zoology Volume 14 damp-frayed and peeling off), 4to An uncommon complete set of the official accounts of the most important nineteenth-century circumnavigation of the globe. HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth on 21 December 1872 under the direction of the Scottish professor Charles Wyville Thomson and his Canadian-born assistant and naturalist John Murray. This was the first time that physicists, chemists and biologists collaborated with expert navigators to map the sea. During the four-year voyage they circumnavigated the globe, travelling 69,0000 nautical miles across the Atlantic, Pacific and Antarctic oceans. They sounded the ocean bottom to a depth of 26,850 feet, discovered 715 new genera and 4,717 new species of ocean life forms, including many deep-sea specimens. Among their discoveries were many of the fish and marine creatures thought at that time to be of legend. Numerous specimens from the voyage are on view in one of the largest collections in the Natural History Museum. This fifty volume, 29,500-page report took twenty-three years to compile and publish. It includes many observations of other natural history subjects including faunae of the countries visited. The following is a selection of some of the papers included in the volumes: Birds, by P.L. Sclater, with 30 hand-coloured plates; Bones of Cetacea, by W. Turner, with 3 plates; Collections of Eggs described by P.L. Sclater; Essay on the Green Turtle by W.K. Parker, with 13 plates; Essay on Shore Fishes, with 32 plates and Deep Sea Fishes, with 73 plates, both by A. Gunther; Deep-Sea Fauna of New Zealand, by A. Hamilton. William Kitchen Parker FRS FRMS (1823-1890) was an English physician, zoologist and comparative anatomist. He became Hunterian Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in The College of Surgeons of England; elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1865, awarded the Royal Medal in 1866. From 1871-73 he was President of the Royal Microspical Society, and in 1885 he received the Baly Medal of the Royal College of Physicians. Nissen BBI 2381; Nissen ZBI 4554; Spence 1198; Wood, p. 596. Sold as a periodical not subject to return. (50)

Richardson (Benjamin Ward). The Asclepiad. A Book of Original Research and Observation in the Science, Art, and Literature of Medicine, Preventive and Curative, 11 volumes [all published], 1884-1895, numerous plates, Society of Antiquaries ink or blind-stamp to titles and bookplates to pastedowns, contemporary half calf gilt with leather labels to spines, rubbed, 8vo The Asclepiad was originally published by Richardson, (sanitary reformer and anaesthetics pioneer), in 1861 with the subtitle of 'Clinical Essays'. It was intended as a periodical but Richardson's other activities led to the abandonment of this project until Richardson re-founded The Asclepiad with the new subtitle here. (11)

Newspapers. A grangerised album of souvenir editions of various periodicals, 1887, containing 'Jubilee numbers' from the Illustrated London News, The Graphic, The Lady's Pictorial, The Pall Mall Budget, The Penny Illustrated Paper, St Stephen's Review, The Art Journal, The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper, and The Jubilee Almanac, numerous black and white illustrations, folding chromolithographic plates, lithographic portraits, advertisements and scenes from Queen Victoria's life, contemporary half morocco, upper board detached, spine partially lacking, heavily worn and frayed, folio Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (1)

Punch periodical, c.1900 volumes 1903-19691922-1969 full run

A silver pickle fork, Sheffield 1918; a hollow filled silver napkin ring, Birmingham 1908; other EPNS flatware; a Rolls Razor, boxed; a Victorian bound periodical; a terracotta teapot with three beakers; a gent's collar; etc

VICTORIAN TUBULAR BRASS AND MESH SIDED PERIODICAL RACK, on ebonised oblong base with brass pad feet, 11" wide

Trade Cards - Good collection of cards circa 1960s to include Batman 1966 National Periodical x 40Captain Scarlet x 32, AB&C Planet of the Apes x 6, Thunderbirds x 12, The Monkees x 25 and The High Chaparral x 18

A NEST OF THREE MAHOGANY OBLONG COFFEE TABLES WITH RED LEATHER INLET TOPS AND AN OAK PERIODICAL RACK

The Japan Punch, 24 issues, Yokohama, 1867, 1869 (x 2 different issues), December 1874, November 1875, February & April 1876, January, May, July-December 1883, January-June & December 1884, June & December 1885, woodblock printed, and including comic illustrations by Charles Wirgman throughout, many full page, printed on Japanese soft paper, original stitched wrappers, a little minor dust-soiling and creasing, slim folio A rare group of 24 issues of this early and influential English-language Japanese periodical, founded and produced entirely by the English artist and cartoonist Charles Wirgman (1832-1891) '[who] introduced to Japan the European notion of nineteenth-century visual satire' (ODNB). The magazine ran from 1862 until Spring 1887 and was the first magazine printed in Japan. It was published irregularly up to 1874 and then monthly thereafter. (24)

Antiquarian. A collection of mostly 18th century and 19th century literature, periodicals and reference, including The History of England, 4 volumes, by N. Tindal, 3rd edition, 1743, The Portfolio, An Artistic Periodical, 3 edition, 1743, The Portfolio, An Artisic Periodical, 3 volumes, 1888-1890, edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton, numerous black and white illustrations, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth, some odd volumes, condition is generally fair/good, 8vo/folio Sold with all faults. (4 shelves)

Universal Magazine (The) of Knowledge and Pleasure..., vol.1-27 in 16 only (lacking vol.24, Jan-June 1759), engraved frontispieces and titles, numerous engraved plates and maps, many folding, many hand-coloured (some maps and natural history subjects including pineapple, tea, birds, flowers, tortoises etc.), some torn and frayed at edges, some defective, some browning or staining, a few leaves and plate in vol.3 defective and loose, contemporary book-label of John Godwin, vol.1- 21 in 11 vol. in contemporary half calf, the rest contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, some spine ends a little worn and chipped, 8vo, John Hinton, 1747; sold as a periodical, not subject to return ⁂ Including county maps, views of Britain (Chatsworth, Hampton Court, Colchester, Vauxhall Gardens, Westminster, Oxford, Bath etc.), many plates of industries (printing, weaving, glass-making, chemistry laboratory, brewhouse, harvesting silkworm eggs, diamond-cutting, hat-making etc.), and cultivation (sugar cane, tobacco, pineapples, vines), fireworks, silver-mining in Potosi, whaling etc. Several maps relate to trade & colonies and the wars in America & India including the English colonies in North America, the British and French settlements in N.America, the West Indies, the Coromandel coast in India, the Gold coast of West Africa, plus plans of the fortification of Montreal and the siege of Quebec.Saleroom Notice:  The date should read 1747 – 60

London Magazine (The): and Monthly Chronologer, vol.VIII-X & XXV-XLIV, 23 vol., vol.8-10 with engraved title vignette, the rest engraved frontispieces and vignette titles and woodcut vignette at beginning of each issue, numerous engraved plates and maps, many folding, a few maps hand-coloured (Cuba, North America, Philippines), some a little shaved at fore-edge, occasional spotting or browning but generally clean, hand-coloured map of North America in vol.32 torn with most detached, one leaf in vol.35 torn and repaired, vol.34 with ?additional folding engraved map of Africa loosely inserted (torn and defective, not apparently called for), contemporary half calf (all but vol.8 mottled calf), red roan labels, rubbed, some spine ends a little worn or chipped but a handsome run, 8vo, for T.Astley, 1739-41 & 1756-75; sold as a periodical, not subject to return ⁂ Originally a political magazine founded in 1732 as an alternative to the Tory-based Gentleman's Magazine this also included contemporary events at home and abroad, literary reviews, articles on scientific and medical discoveries, births, marriages, deaths and stock prices. Of particular interest in the present run are the years covering the Seven Years War 1756-63 with many maps and plans of North America (including maps of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Montreal, New Orleans etc., plates of the taking of Quebec and views of New York, Philadelphia and Charleston), as well as Pondicherry, Bengal and the East Indies. There are also several maps of Britain and Ireland, many by Thomas Kitchin, plans of London and campaigns in Europe, plus reports and plates of subjects as diverse as the massacre at Glencoe, the Foundling Hospital, the new Blackfriars bridge, the new state coach of George III, the shadows over Britain during the solar eclipse of 1764, a fire engine, discoveries at Herculaneum, and zoological plates of a sperm whale, elephant, an armadillo and the Beast of Gevaudan in France which was rumoured to have devoured over 80 people.

India Sikh large scale engraving of the Maharajah Ranjit Singh in Court 1858 a superb engraving of the lion of Punjab Maharajah Ranjit Singh in Court, within a 19th century French periodical 'L'Illustration, Journal Universel' dated 15 Mai1858 and titled 'La Cour de Runjeet-Sing a Lahore', measuring 53x73cm. A truly magnificent scene of Sikhs, Sikh nobles, Akali Nihungs, Ranjit Singh, court officials, the document is in good condition Note: This engraving is based on the famous painting of the Lahore court by Hungarian artist August Schoefft now in the Lahore Museum in Pakistan. This is one of the most detailed scenes that portrays the magnificent Sikh empire at its height.

Botany/Medicine - Hill (Sir John, M.D.), The Ufeful (sic) Family-Herbal; Or, An Account of All Thofe (sic) English Plants which are remarkable for their Virtues, and of the Drugs which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries; with their Descriptions and their Uses, as proved by Experience [...with] An Appendix, A. Millar, London 1789, bound/inserted with contemporaneous pages of ink MS annotations and notations, the front pastedown pasted with a 1791 newspaper/periodical notice of William Forsyth's discovery of the efficacy of trees in treating certain ailments, front period calf board and spine, 8vo; Culpepper (Nicholas), The Complete Herbal [...], Thomas Kelly, London 1850, hand-coloured botanical engraved plates, monochrome line-engraved portrait title-piece of the author, 4to [2]

Naval History - a late Victorian red buckram scrap album, containing a b/w photograph of the Staff of H.M.S. Daedalus, Bristol 1882, titled, 18cm x 23.5cm; another, Committee of the Bristol L.O. Association 1885, titled, 18cm x 23.5cm; other naval images, R.N.R. and Staff H.M.S. Daedalus 1871, H.M.S. Daedalus (Drill Ship of R.N.R.), another at Hotwell Road, Bristol, R.N.R. at Stick Practice 1871, Band of H.M.S. Swiftsure 1872-5, Chief Petty Officers Mess - H.M.S. Swiftsure; cricket, The Australian Eleven 1888; periodical scraps of Zululand, Afghanistan; two harlequin pages of contemporary sepia clipped photographs of the British Royal family; other scrap photographs, including political grandees of the Houses of Commons and Lords, other political figures, aristocrats, stars of the stage, Continental royals, aristocrats and statesmen, English and Continental topography, titled in ink MS throughout, 4to

An Edwardian mahogany country house periodical rack, inlaid with an oval shell patera, stepped diivisions, shaped sides outlined with barberpole stringing, 49.5cm high, 57.5cm wide, c.1905

Variety. 10 special numbers & annuals of this periodical.

KING POLE. A large carton of this circus periodical.

Theatre Arts Monthly. 14 copies of this periodical in orig. wrappers, c.1930's; also 2 others. (16).

W.H. ALLNUT (PIONEER BOOK TRADE HISTORIAN) A bound collection of extensive manuscript notes and letters including lecture notes; list of printers between 1546 and 1799, notes on the creation of the first library in Oxford 1409 Cobham's Library and subsequent collections in the Bodleian library; periodical publications (1712-1732) etc; (a further synopsis of the work available upon request); together with three further books pertaining to the book trade (4)

AN OAK OBLONG HALL TABLE WITH ONE LONG DRAWER AND PERIODICAL RACK BELOW, ON BALUSTER LEGS, 2'1" WIDE

*Mucha (Alphonse, 1860-1939). The West End Review, [1898], colour lithographic publicity flyer with printed text and reviews to centrefold, horizontal fold, 36 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 ins), together with an accompanying 8 pp. stapled booklet of press reviews for the West End Review, small 8vo, both loosely inserted and preserved in Souvenir: Julius Caesar, Her Majesty's Theatre, Designed, Edited and Published for Mr Tree, by the West-End Review, 1898, colour and black & white illustrations, original printed boards in glassine dust jacket, torn without loss, small folio Mucha/Henderson 83. Reade 22. Mucha designed a poster for this magazine in 1897 which was one of his largest lithographic works, forming a nine-sheet poster measuring 10 feet by 7 feet. The periodical was published between June 1897 and September 1899 and this image was used for a number of the magazine's covers. A good, crisp and fine impression. (3)